Imagine typing out this letter and not stopping halfway and thinking “Hmmm, this makes me sound like the worst human being in the world.”
Holy fucking shit
I found the response for anyone else who was curious
Response is gold! I’d ALWAYS want a handmade gift more than some random store bought thing!
Dude I have family that will go “can you make me this thing for generic gift-giving holiday?” and when I agree to, they PROVIDE THE MATERIALS THEY WANT. And who knows if they even paid for enough yarn for a whole bedspread! Yarn is fucking expensive and buying high quality yarn to make AND ENTIRE BEDSPREAD and then making the goddamn thing in six months- which means she spent a LOT of time she could’ve been doing other things, easily hundreds of hours depending on the level of difficulty and how fine the yarn was- and just… damn.